Archimedes (In Our Time)
250 BCE · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Greek mathematician Archimedes. Reputed to have shouted “Eureka!” as he leapt from his bath having discovered the principles of floating bodies. Whatever the truth of the myths surrounding the man, he was certainly one of the world’s great mathematicians. The practical application of his work in pulleys and levers created
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Around 250 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)
- Reign of Ashoka the Great (268 BCE)
- Great Wall of China (Qin) (221 BCE)
- Second Punic War (218 BCE)
- Hellenistic period (323 BCE)
- Terracotta Army buried (210 BCE)